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Zogby’s bias, AAR’s failures

Now that (Dead) Air America has gone belly-up, the libs are trying it again in a different package. Hey, give them their due for not giving up! Sure, this one may be destined for the radio dial trash heap, too, but they disagree…and they’re bringing in faces old and new. From Radio Equalizer:

Less than two weeks after their last- ditch proposal to purchase Air America Radio and avert a bankruptcy was rejected by its management, Sheldon and Anita Drobny have instead decided to launch a rival, Franken- free liberal talk network.

Insert The Truth (With Jokes) here.

Backing them is Dr Mike Newcomb, a Phoenix- area talk host who has been named CEO of their company, Nova M Radio LLC.

Sheldon Drobny, the eccentric Democrat Party fundraiser, Huffington Post blogger and investor with known LaRouchian sympathies, even has his first talk hosts hired and ready to go: Deaniac frat- boy Joe Trippi, as well as pollster John Zogby. From Air America, they’re bringing over former evening host Mike Malloy.

John Zogby, the pollster guy? Yes, that John Zogby. The same John Zogby that just so happens to have had Democrats winning the 2002 and 2004 elections, including a comfy 311 electoral vote total for Jean-Francois Heinz-Kerry (who is rumored to have served in Vietnam). Current Zogby polls have Dems performing better than they are in other polls. In light of Zogby’s recent track record, as well as his new affiliation with leftist radio, I think it’s safe to say that it’d be a good idea to have a little “healthy skepticism” about the Zogger’s poll results.

By the way, the Radio Equalizer has a great post on how the MSM is running interference for (Dead) Air America, insisting that its failures had nothing to do with sh#tty programming and even sh#ttier talent (is that an oxymoron…”sh#tty talent”?). Nor were the failures due to a stunning ignorance of capitalism and the radio industry, particularly advertising. No, the failures of AAR were due to…I swear, I’m not making this up…weak tower signals, so not enough listeners could hear AAR!

That must be it! If only the signals were stronger, more people could tune in! I don’t suppose the owners of AAR thought to do any research on the kW of the towers they were getting, did they?

October 18, 2006 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Bigotry is apparently only a one-way street

If the left didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all. From Maryland:

Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele rapped a high-ranking Democratic official on Tuesday for his comment that he ‘‘slavishly follows the Republican Party.”

‘‘At some point, I expect Ben Cardin to tell his team to sit down and shut up,” Steele said.

Steele, a Republican, is in a hotly contested race for U.S. Senate with Cardin, a Democratic congressman.

‘‘He’ll read anything he can into anything someone says so he doesn’t have to talk about the issues,” Cardin said, after being told of his remarks.

The ‘‘slavishly” comment came in an MSNBC report that was posted Tuesday on its Web site. The report includes this passage:

‘‘Cardin, a dry and detailed-oriented career legislator, was upstaged at his Upper Marlboro event Sunday by the irrepressible Rep. Steny Hoyer, who did a comedy routine about the event’s host, Cool Wave Water, and told the audience that Steele had had ‘a career of slavishly supporting the Republican Party.’”

Hoyer “did a comedy routine” and referred to Steele with the “s-word”. Yeah, that Hoyer is a riot. He’ll be here all week, ladies and gentlemen…remember to tip your waitress! By the way, can anyone fathom the outrage if a Republican not only called a black Democrat a slave, but told him to get over it and stop reading anything into it? Continuing:

Hoyer (D-Dist. 5) of Mechanicsville issued a statement Tuesday evening: “If Mr. Steele did in fact take offense let us assure him none was intended. But Mr. Steele continuously tries to direct attention away from the fact that he’s an unwavering supporter of the Republican agenda of President Bush and Vice President Cheney.”

His office also supplied this comment, from Melvin Forbes, the CEO of Cool Wave Water, the event’s organizer: “This was largely an African-American audience and there was absolutely no offense taken or noticed. It was obvious that Steny was simply talking about Steele’s constant support for the Republican agenda.”

So because the audience was packed with black Democrats who think of Steele as a slave and an “Uncle Tom”, Hoyer can wash his hands of the matter? “So, you were offended, huh Darkie? Well, the other blacks in the room don’t like you, so it’s all good for me, Dawg! So shut up, eat your watermelon, and go back to being Bush’s house slave…my peeps in the ‘largely African-American audience’ got my back on this one, Playa!”

Robert Byrd (KKK-WV) uses the N-word on FNC a few years ago? No big whoop. Her Highness Shrillary says that Republicans were running the House like a plantation? Who cares? Chris Dodd lionized Robert Byrd, the only Klansman in the Senate? Whoppity doo!

Trent Lott says the country would have been more problem-free had Strom Thurmond been elected President? “Off with his head!” Lott lost his leadership position and held on for his political life. Yessirree, ya just gotta love those Dems for their racial consistency, huh?

October 18, 2006 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Baker: Iraq a "helluva mess"

I respect James Baker and his opinion, so I read the article with great interest. From Breitbart:

Former US secretary of state James Baker was visibly shocked when he last visited Iraq, and said the country was in a “helluva mess”, the BBC reported.
Baker is leading a review of the situation in Iraq by a bipartisan US committee of experts, and is expected to recommend a change in US strategy for rebuilding Iraq.

Citing a unnamed close friend and ally of Baker’s, himself a top politician, the BBC said that Baker added that “there simply weren’t any easy solutions”.

Baker was secretary of state to US President George W. Bush’s father, president George H. W. Bush.

Citing unnamed members of Baker’s committee, The Los Angeles Times on Monday said that two options under consideration would represent reversals of US policy: withdrawing American troops in phases, and bringing neighboring Iran and Syria into a joint effort to stop the fighting.

The BBC also reported that a third possibility was under consideration — to concentrate on getting stability in Iraq, and stop aiming to establish a democracy there.

The 10-member commission has agreed that change must be made, the Times report said.

“It’s not going to be ‘stay the course,’” the paper quoted one participant as saying. “The bottom line is, (current policy) isn’t working. There’s got to be another way.”

At the risk of incurring the wrath of my more conservative friends here, I must concur with Baker. I don’t think the current policy in Iraq is working, and I think we should explore other ways.

Before you guys flame me, allow me to unequivocally state that I don’t think the Murtha approach (cut-and-run and set up shop in Okinawa for a quick strike…5k miles away>?) is an option. Neither is the hippies’ approach of “bring them all home now.” I’m not fond of Baker’s idea to bring Iran and Syria into the situation, considering they’re contributing to the mess. However, as Baker admits, there are no easy solutions, and unlike most Dem politicians, he at least has some ideas that we can discuss and debate.

So, what do you think? Is Baker on to something, or is he on something (crack, heroine, etc.)?

October 18, 2006 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment